Walter Hobbs (b. circa 1950) is the deuteragonist of Elf and Elf: Buddy's Musical Christmas. He is Buddy and Michael Hobbs’s father, Emily Hobbs’s husband, Jovie’s father-in-law, and Susie’s paternal grandfather.
He was portrayed by the late James Caan in the film and is voiced by Mark Hamill in Elf: Buddy's Musical Christmas.
Walter, a selfish workaholic who seems to care about nothing other than making money, works as the Executive Vice President of Greenway Press, a children’s book publishing firm in New York City’s Empire State Building. However, he stopped being selfish at the end of the movie.